Wei and Jin cooks

Next, Zhao Hanzhang and Shi Le staged a drama where you run away and I chase you. You can't escape even if you have wings. She chased him from the outskirts of Chengshi County in Puyang State to the outskirts of Wu'an County in Guangping County.

During this process, they fought against each other many times, and Zhao Hanzhang always defeated the opponent by a small margin.

Even though Shi Le was confident that he would not be defeated by Zhao Hanzhang, and he was constantly joining forces with Shi's reinforcements, several consecutive defeats still made him irritable and doubtful about his destiny.

He is like this, let alone his soldiers.

It didn't matter that Zhao Hanzhang was popular in Yuzhou and Yanzhou, but she didn't expect that when she entered Sizhou, a place where Liu Yuan and Shi Le had ruled for several years, the local people also welcomed her.

Often as soon as Shi Le's army left, someone would go to Zhao Hanzhang's team and take the initiative to inform her of the army's whereabouts. There were even people with particularly good arithmetic who estimated their number and the provisions they carried and surrendered to Zhao Hanzhang.

This also made Shi Le openly raise suspicions several times, but he still couldn't get rid of Zhao Hanzhang.

In this case, there was only one way, and that was to avoid the inhabited city and go all the way back to Anping Country in the wild.

But he doesn't have enough food and grass. He needs to replenish his food and grass while running.

How to supplement it?

Naturally, it is impossible to expropriate slowly, so looting is the best way.

This is almost a vicious cycle. He robbed the local people's property, and the people turned to Zhao Hanzhang. From the gentry to the servants and common people, they all became Zhao Hanzhang's spies.

But he couldn't give up, otherwise his soldiers would abandon him immediately. While looting food and grass, he also needed to constantly kill prisoners to intimidate his men, so as to intimidate them not to leave the army without permission.

This is a slow poison.

Shi Le saw it, and Zhao Hanzhang understood it faster than him, so even if the battle line stretched, Zhao Hanzhang's logistics could not keep up, and they began to run out of food, she still restrained her men and did not allow them to rob the people.

She gathered the captains of each team together and said: "The people are the water, and we are the boats. Sizhou is also the land of our Jin country. After this battle, we will regain it and rule again. If we harm the people at this time, there will be trouble in the future." Infinite. Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it. Looking at Shi Le's current predicament, we can see how important people's hearts are."

The team leaders naturally understood, but, "Your Majesty, things have priorities. We can't let the soldiers fight with us hungry."

Zhao Hanzhang said solemnly: "I will find a way. Your task is to restrain the soldiers under your command and not allow them to offend the people. This is a death order. If there is any violation, regardless of superiority or inferiority, it will be dealt with according to military law."

Everyone was stunned and bowed their heads in response.

Zhao Hanzhang's method was to use his seal to borrow food everywhere.

Borrow from the local county government and the local gentry and wealthy families.

At first, many people were not happy. Although she only brought one girl and one personal guard to the door, they still felt threatened under Zhao Hanzhang's stern eyes.

The most powerful official in Jin State is currently borrowing grain. Who dares not to lend her even a grain of rice?

Everyone reluctantly gave away the food and received an IOU stamped with Zhao Hanzhang's private seal.

Although she said that with this IOU, she could go to Zhao Jiajun or the yamen in Xiping, Chen County and Luoyang to collect debts, few people actually dared to go.

But there are always more genuine people to meet.

A borrowed scholar from Gongxian County took the IOU seriously and went to the Zhao Jiajun camp.

Zhao Ming got the IOU, gritted his teeth, and asked someone to pay him back with money from the already not wealthy military treasury.

After the scholar got the money, he took his guards home. This was really known to the whole world once he paid back the money. News circulated faster than people and goods.

What's more, Zhao Ming and Ji Yuan also pushed it intentionally.

As a result, the news flew to the north faster than Zhao Hanzhang, who was fighting a battle from time to time and taking a rest, and even crossed Shi Le, reaching the place he wanted to pass one step ahead.

As a result, the people in enemy-occupied areas such as Sizhou and Bingzhou wanted to return even more. Even the Huns and Jie people had some expectations when they heard that Zhao Hanzhang was coming.

Although the emperor who rules them now is a Huns, only the Huns aristocrats benefit. The ordinary Huns have a higher status than the Han and Jie people, but the taxes, military service, etc. they need to bear are still very heavy, and their lives are not as good as those in the Jin Dynasty. It was good to rule them, but due to the influence of the general environment, their lives became even more miserable.

Especially this year because of the drought.

The drought in northern Sizhou and Bingzhou is much more severe than that in Yanzhou and Yuzhou. It is already August, and the rice in the fields, as well as the wheat and beans sown in the spring, can be harvested one after another.

But the soil in the field was so dry that there were cracks. There were only a few crops growing on it, and they all had their heads drooped, as if they were going to die in the next moment.

Some places near the water can barely harvest anything, but the fields far away from the river have basically failed to harvest anything, and even people and animals have begun to compete for water.

Under this situation, they missed their old days in the Jin Kingdom more and more. They heard that Zhao Hanzhang loved the people. Under her rule, regardless of race, regardless of superiority or inferiority, a good person was a good person, and a slave was a slave. A slave could also accumulate military achievements and become a good person. A good person will not become a slave just because of his caste.

To be honest, few people at the bottom really pay attention to who the emperor is. If it is a person of the same race, it is good. If not, as long as life is not particularly difficult, they will not object.

When Shi Jun passed by, the people in the town, whether they were Han, Jie, Huns, or other barbarians, all hid in panic. When their doors were broken into and food was plundered, most people did not dare to resist.

Anyone who resisted was killed by Shi Jun.

As soon as they left, some people began to search in the direction where the stone army came from, and sure enough, it didn't take long before another army was discovered.

After confirming that the flag raised high was "Zhao", they stepped forward to report.

As soon as Zhao Hanzhang entered the city, the county magistrate and local gentry came to see him. He first explained his difficulties. This year was dry, the harvest was not good, and the Shi army had just looted, so they didn't have much food and grass available.

Then offer food and grass.

Zhao Hanzhang asked Fu Tinghan to count the food and grass, while she took out a pen and wrote them an IOU.

After receiving the IOU stamped by Zhao Hanzhang, the county magistrate and the gentry both smiled and narrowed their eyes.

After knowing that this IOU is not an empty promise, as long as they are not really too poor to eat, they want to exchange grain and grass for one. Even if Zhao Hanzhang still fails to pay the money and grain in the future, with this IOU, they can get other things. What about promises?

There are even those who are far-sighted and adventurous. Even if they are almost too poor to eat, they still find a way to scrape together a sum of food and grass to give to Zhao Hanzhang in exchange for an IOU.

Zhao Hanzhang collected a sum of food and grass faster than Shi Le, and then the army was divided into two parts. One part was responsible for escorting the food and grass, and the other part carried three days of food and grass each and rushed to chase Shi Le.

The reason why she was so anxious was because she had made arrangements a few days ago, and sent Zuti to Guangping County in a roundabout way. They decided to attack Shi Le from the north and south of Wu'an County.

For this reason, Zhao Hanzhang asked Zhao Ju, Xie Shi, Ji Ping, Wei You and others to divide their troops and approach Shi Le in a fan shape, forcing him to choose to go to Wu'an County.